Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model.

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model and reshape it. That alone sets it apart from the flagships sold by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Inkling is big. It is a mixture-of-experts system with 975 billion total parameters, though it uses only about 41 billion for any given task. It handles a context window of up to 1 million tokens, and it trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. It reasons across text, images, and audio, but for now it only writes text back, including code and structured data.

Here is the twist. Thinking Machines does not...

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